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Old Feb 26, 2007 | 12:01 pm
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Originally Posted by jedison
I was thinking about the new outlets on NNCW and wondering why they are U.S. standard plugs. Is this the most common one in the world, or most common for business travelers? Or is it that there are so many BA flights to and from the U.S.? I could see why BA wouldn't use UK plugs, but the Euro style seems like a reasonable alternative, since I see it all over the place. I think there's only a handful of places that use the U.S. one besides the U.S.
IMO if you have to have a mains style outlet then 110V US is safer than 220-240V, but I'd still prefer they to use 12V, just like the idea of forthcoming cellphone use in flight scares the c**p out of me.
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